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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven US update.

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Speaker 2: The latest use this hour.

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Speaker 1: In just four minutes, about thirty five hundred US sailors

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Speaker 1: and marines have arrived in the Middle East Abore the

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Speaker 1: USS Tripoli. US Central Command says the soldiers of the

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Speaker 1: thirty first Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived Friday and will be

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Speaker 1: joined by the USS New Orleans and the USS San Diego.

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Speaker 1: President Trump has said he doesn't intend to put boots

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Speaker 1: on the ground in the Iran war, though he suggested

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Speaker 1: taking over Iran's crewed export storage depot, which could require

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Speaker 1: ground troops. A federal judge as granted a temporary restraining

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Speaker 1: order stopping media giant Nexstar from merging with its competitor Tegna.

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Speaker 1: The judge sided with DirecTV in a ruling late Friday,

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Speaker 1: writing DirecTV did establish a likelihood of success on the

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Speaker 1: merit of its claim that the merger violates anti trust

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Speaker 1: laws and that moving forward with the transaction would create

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Speaker 1: irreparable harm. The decision blocks next time j Are and

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Speaker 1: Tegna from combining their operations for fourteen days. A hearing

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Speaker 1: is set for April seventh. This coming week, the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court will hear arguments on President Trump's plan to end

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Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. Roy O'Neil reports, on.

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Speaker 2: His first day back in office, President Trump signed an

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Speaker 2: executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to parents

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Speaker 2: in the US illegally or temporarily. Opponents say that goes

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Speaker 2: against the Constitution's fourteenth Amendment, but the administration argues that

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Speaker 2: amendment was only intended to ensure former slaves and their

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Speaker 2: children were recognized as US citizens following the Civil War.

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Speaker 2: The Justices will hear oral arguments on Wednesday. I'm Rory O'Neil.

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Speaker 1: The federally backed home lender Fanny May is set to

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Speaker 1: start accepting mortgages that are backed by cryptocurrency. That announcement

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Speaker 1: Thursday by the home finance company Better Home and Finance

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Speaker 1: and crypto exchange coin based Global, a new product launched

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Speaker 1: by the two companies will allow people to get mortgages

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Speaker 1: with Better Home that conform to Fanny Mays standards while

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Speaker 1: using Bitcoin or USD coin as collateral for the loan.

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Carr. In March Madness Action, the number one

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Speaker 1: seed Arizona Wildcats move into the final four for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a quarter century, beating number two seed

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Speaker 1: per Due in the Elite eight Saturday, seventy nine to

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Speaker 1: sixty four. Head coach for the Wildcats Tommy Lloyd says

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Speaker 1: his team had pretty steady nerves heading into the game.

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Speaker 3: I woke up this morning and I thought, are we

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Speaker 3: in the Sweet sixteen or the Elite eight? And the

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Speaker 3: moment I thought that, I knew we were all right

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Speaker 3: because I knew we weren't making too big of a

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Speaker 3: deal out of this, and I know externally there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of pressure in this or that, and you know,

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Speaker 3: to be honest with you, we just wanted.

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Speaker 2: To get in a ballgame.

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Speaker 1: Arizona takes on either Michigan or Tennessee in the Final

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Speaker 1: four next Saturday. In other NCAA action, number three seed

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Speaker 1: Illinois pulled away late and took out number nine seed

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Speaker 1: Iowas seventy one fifty nine. The Elite eight concludes today

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Speaker 1: number one seed Michigan faces Tennessee, followed by number one

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Speaker 1: seed Duke taking on number two seed Yukon. Those working

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Speaker 1: without pay for the TSA could be seeing paychecks as

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Speaker 1: soon as Monday. Lisa Taylor has the latest.

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Speaker 4: President Trump on Friday directed the Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 4: to pay TSA agents, even as other DHS staff go

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Speaker 4: without pay during the government shutdown. The president issued a

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Speaker 4: memo saying he ordered payroll providers to process paychecks as

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Speaker 4: expeditiously as possible. Hill says TSA officers will begin seeing

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Speaker 4: paychecks as soon as Monday, Finley said Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Recent national polls have shown a majority of registered American

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Speaker 1: voters are disapproving of the President's handling of immigration, Iran inflation,

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Speaker 1: and the cost of living. No King's protests against President

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Speaker 1: Trump drew huge crowds nationwide Saturday. This man brought his

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Speaker 1: family from Virginia to take part in a rally in Washington,

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a celebration of free speech and

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Speaker 5: free assembly, range of reasons people are here. The most

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Speaker 5: important thing is that people get out and be a

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Speaker 5: part of what makes our country, you know, unique and special.

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Speaker 1: No King's marches were held in all fifty states, with

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Speaker 1: organizers predicting a turnout of about nine million nationwide. I'm

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Speaker 1: Scott Carr.